Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-25


nocent sufferers whose trust has been be-
trayed.
THE BANK OFFICERS IN JAIL.
The most sensational feature of yester-
day in connection with the failure was the
surrender of Z. L. Harper and B. L. Hop
kins by their sureties. They failed to get
bail and there was no prospects OF getting
it, and at 1890 o'clock last night they
themselves gave up all hope and asked to
be taken to Jail. They were attended by a
few friends and went quietly, without at
tracing attention, in the custody of the
United States Marshal and his deputies.
Harper took the matter philosOphically,
but HOPKINS broke down quite completely.
As they entered the Jail some of the prls-
Oners who formed a Sabbath service choir,
were singing, "Nearer My God to Thee"
They are in adjacent cells in the first tier
among the common prisoners.
COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM IN CHARGE.
Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm
arrived yesterday morning and at once IN
stituted sweeping change. All the clerks
employed by Bank Examiner Powell were
relieved from duty and Trenholm's own
men put in. The directors and officers OF
the bank were excluded and the work of
exposing the ruins proceeded rapidly.
JOE WILTSHIRE ALSO ARRESTED.
Another sensational feature of the days
dOings was the arrest of ]. F. Wiltshire, the
broker who took the checks Of the Fidelity
Bank to Chicago to held up the wheat
market. He was charged with aiding and
abetting in the wilful and unlawful mis-
application of the funds of the bank. He
readily gave bond in $35, 900.
A FAILURE RESULTS.
Kayser & Hegner, wholesale dealers in
wines and liquors, made an assignment to
Samuel II. Smith, Jr. Mr.. Hegner owns
eighty shares of Fidelity Bank stock. He
would have been unable to pay the assess
ment on his liability which he foresaw is
to be made, and the firm preferred that
their own creditors should be preferred
over the prospective Judgment on the
hank stock liability. Hence the assign
ment They estimate their liabilities at
$50, 900, and believe their assets will reach
the same sHnR.-~ "
ANOTHER.
Louis Kennedy & Co., commission and
grain merchants, assigned to-day. LA
bilities are said to be $3.50, 900, with assets
of $4,000 Mr.. Kennedy was reported to
be in the Chicago wheat deal and was a
heavy endorser of Fidelity Bank paper.
FORM OF COMMITMENT.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF OHIO,
CITY OF CINCINNATI. !
"TRe President Of the United States, to the
keeper Of the jail IN Hamilton County, in
the state Of Ohio:
"Whereas, Edward l.. Harper has heen
arrested upon the oath Of Eugene i. Pow
ell, for having on or about the 18th day of
June, A. D. 1887, at Cincinnati, in the
district aforesaid, unlawfully and willfully
misapplied the funds, money and credits
of the Fidelity National Bank, or Banking
Association, duly incorporated under the
banking laws of the United States, +. L.
Harper being then the Vice President Of
said association, by making and using GER
tain certificates of deposits without the
authority of the Directors, for the sum of
seven hundred thousand dollars, with in
tent to injure and defraud such association,
and contrary to Section 500 Of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, and against
the peace and dignity of the United States
of America. He has been examined by
Mr. Henry Hooper, a Commissioner Of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
said Southern District Of Ohio, and upon
the aforesaid charge has been required to
give bond in the sum of S., 600 for his ap-
pearance before me on the 9th of June,
1887, at 10 o'clock, which requisition he
has failed to comply with. You are there
fore commanded in the name of the su-
thority aforesaid, to secure Edward l..
Harper, prisoner of the United States, in
the Jail of said Hamilton county until he
be discharged'by due process of law.
''Given under my hand and seal, in the
city and district aforesaid, on the 23d day
of June, 1887.
"HENRY HOOPER,
Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Southern District
of Ohio"
A similar commitment was used in Hop
kins' case.
MORE ATTACHMENTS.
The Wellman & Barnes Manufacturing
Company filed q suit in attachment,
through Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith &
Hoadly, against the Fidelity Bank for re-
coyery on draft for 5000 issued BY the
defendant upon the First National Bank
Of New York, and on deposit for $, 570.-
50. 1t is believed by the plaintiffs that
there are funds belonging to the Fidelity
in the Akron Bank and the Akron Citizens
Loan and Saving Association, and mes
senger was dispatched last night with the
papers necessary to attach such funds.
The Detroit bank, which filed suit in
attachment against the Fidelity at q
o'clock Wednesday evening was the Union
National. The amount of the claim was
S14. 900, and yesterday real estate con-
veyed by Harper to the Fidelity was at
tached.
The Wheeling Steel Works filed suit
through E. L. Donough, and Lincoln,
Stephens & Lincoln, for the replevin Of
nineteen car loads of BeSsemer steel scraps,
which are at the Riverside rolling mill,
THAT SPURIOUS STOCK.
The subioined letter, signed by Bald
win, shows the manner In which stock
holders in the Fidelity were notified that
additional stock, unauthorized, vas ready
for distribution;
FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK, /
CINCINNATI, o., April 3, 1887. !
-, Cincinnati, o.:
''DEAR SIR-By resolution of the Board
the capital stock Of this hank was increased
to s, 2,OOO, OOQ, allowing every stOckholdef
the privilege of Subscribing an equal
amount of stock to that he held by buying
at the rate Of 135 per share 1.-THE IS on the
100 share to be placed to surplus account.
All our stockholders have embraced the
opportunity Of taking the new stock except
yourself. Please let rs know your inten-
tons and oblige, respectfully yours,
"ASnn BALDWIN. Cashier.
Payment so per cent April S.
Payment 80 per cent May B."
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